Panelists: Matt Asay (Novel), Robert Lefkowitz (On Vacation), Jason Matusow (Microsoft), Tim O'Reilly, David Stutz (On Vacation)

Unfortunately this panel never quite made it off the ground for me. There was a lot of sniping at Microsoft, which didn't help get to the main topic. David Stutz tried a few times to get the discussion back on track. Here are some highlight quotes:

• Matusow: we have to differentiate between base and extended functionality"
• O'Reilly: Is the power balance between users and vendors fair?
• Stutz: open science is a good model for open source
• Lefkowitz: look at how data is licensed to get ideas for code: per eyeball, per sheet of glass.

About halfway through the panel I discovered that the gentleman next to me who was encouraging me to just go for it (I was trying to wait my turn to speak) was Doc Searls. I managed to introduce myself after the talk. I did notice that he was carrying the aircraft carrier, I mean 17", PowerBook. It's odd, I never used to have a problem barreling my way into discussions when I was a graduate student, but I've noticed recently that I'm finding it hard to do.